Improved mole-trap



iintedI gime WILLIAM e. Ali-ERS, `or

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IETERSURGr, VlRGINIA.

Letters .Patent No. 98,539, dated january/4, 1870.

IMPRovED Mone-TRA?.

i The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

A slide in vertical`frames,and which maybe held in anlelevated position by levers retained by a catch, from' which they varedisengageil to allow the weight tofall,l

and impale the animal on the spikes.

The invention consists in the improved means of detaching thefleverfrom the catch, as hereinafter described. i

In the drawingsv A is th'ewertical frame.

B, the weight, armed with spikes b, and sliding in the frame A. v

The weight B has a staple, or eye,Y a, in its dpper u eide, with which isconnected oneeud of a lever, A',

having its fulcrum on the top of the ii'ame.

When the weight is at theA top of the guide-way, it

is upheld by placing the levertAat Ia point beyond its i'ulcrum, under a catch, c, in the top of the i'aine Near its free end, the lever, when in this situation, is in contact with the sloping upper end of the'iodd,

tremity of the earth-trigger Il), which is itself jointed, at its opposite extremity, to the lower part of the frame A. `The trigger D is placed in the-earth at about the depth at which moles do mostly burrow,

under it at any point. 4 V The; 'raising of the trigger lifts the connecting-rod ,11, and forces the lever A from under the catch,

lwhereupon the spiked weight B falls and impales the I --riiole. v i

Having'thns described my invention, What Lclaim asnew, and 'desire tosecure by Letters Patent` isrlhe combination, with the earth-trigger D, lever A', and catch c, the rod d, when bevelled at its upper end, all constructed and' arrangedfto operate as shown 'and'describedl WILLIAM O. AKERS.

-Witnesses:,

Platinum R. Almas,

LEMUEL E. IBVLN.

the latter being pivoted at its bottom to the outer-ex and 4is raisedtbythe attempt of the animal to'v get 

